ZACH AUGUSTE NEWS FEED

The ACC is showing no favoritism toward Duke to start conference play.The Blue Devils open up Saturday at Notre Dame (4 p.m. ET, CBS), one of three new members to the league, and a program desperate to show it belongs in the ACC.

To death and taxes, I add Marquette. The Golden Eagles are the one thing you can count on annually. A year after losing the Big Easts player of the year and leagues leading scorer (and they were two different people) Buzz Williams team is back again, tied atop the leaderboard with Syracuse.